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• He has an extreme aversion to needles, and avoids visiting the doctor.From the entry extreme
• John Doe's old age and stubborn aversion to new ideas make him a curmudgeon of a candidate.From the entry curmudgeon
• I posit that his voice is the direct result of his aversion to adverbs.2016 November 12, SomeGuyNamedTony, “The Dune, and Stephen King's adverbophobia”, in StephenKing.com Message Board. From the entry adverbophobia
• I keep putting off my Solasmance, because I have an aversion to heartbreak.2015 September 18, KindOwl, Reddit. From the entry Solasmance
• Even-mindedness means being free from indifference as well as from attachment and aversion.2004, Lorne Ladner, The Lost Art of Compassion. From the entry even-mindedness
• Thai veterinarians interviewed during the course of this research particularly commented on pachydermal aversion to their presence.1996, Rita Ringis, Elephants of Thailand in Myth, Art, and Reality, page 44. From the entry pachydermal
• The postmodern aversion to theory is symptomatic of a stupid age.1991, Ben Agger, “Introduction: Critical Theory Goes Public”, in A Critical Theory of Public Life: Knowledge, Discourse and Politics in an…. From the entry theoreticity
• Noninclination toward disastrous acts can be caused by aversion, which prevents the agent from undertaking any activity.1990, Harold G. Coward, K. Kunjunni Raja, The Philosophy of the Grammarians, volume 5, page 266. From the entry noninclination
• I think it's because an aversion to adverbs makes it so that you need to review your writing.2016 November 12, SomeGuyNamedTony, “The Dune, and Stephen King's adverbophobia”, in StephenKing.com Message Board. From the entry adverbophobia
• But because Aspergians can express themselves in words, they have more ways to deal with their aversions or indulge their interests.2011, Jael McHenry, The Kitchen Daughter, Gallery Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry Aspergian
• Is it any wonder that the ruler of such a place would be worshipped with aversion rather than invocation?1997, Kathie Carlson, Life’s Daughter/Death’s Bride: Inner Transformations through the Goddess Demeter/Persephone, Boston, Mass.…. From the entry holocaust
• The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species.1996, in FMRI Technical Reports number 2, Florida Marine Research Institute, page 10. From the entry xanthophobia
• The neophilia of thiamine-deficient rats could be a direct consequence of a specific aversion for familiar deficient diet (paleophobia).1967, Paul Rozin, “Specific aversions as a component of specific hungers”, in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, volume…. From the entry paleophobia
• Another common aversion is that of high places.1914, McClure's Magazine, page 140. From the entry phobia
• Louis, told me when I asked him if all these tech companies had gone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.”2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic. From the entry go bananas
• It ranged from mere aversion at being gazed at, all the way to the subjective development of real physical illness out of otherwise trifling ailments.2022, Arthur B. Reeve, The Social Gangster. From the entry ophthalmophobia
• Citing the candidate’s media aversion and campaign signs soliciting votes for a first-nameless “Kane,” Mitchell said, “They purposely didn’t want him in the public.”2015 May 21, James O’Malley, “Consultant: Petition issues sunk Kane […]”, in Times Leader, numbers 2015-141, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., →ISSN…. From the entry first-nameless
• Coupled with said customer's malparkage in the handicapped zone right in front of the door, this will usually create an atmosphere of tense, suspect aversion.2000 August 20, «tµßeguÿ», “Re: automobile tool definitions”, in 3do.bad-attitude (Usenet). From the entry malparkage
• Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths.1997, Kenneth J. Lohmann et al., “Orientation, Navigation, and Natal Beach Homing in Sea Turtles”, chapter 5 of John A. Musick et al.…. From the entry xanthophobia
• The aversion to public displays of eating persists today not only in Kyoto but also throughout the higher levels of Japanese society.1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry Kyoto
• This clearly was not a case for fisticuffs, even apart from the very natural aversion I had to beat that Shadow—this wandering and tormented thing.1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons…. From the entry fisticuff
• That aversion is tested when he teams up with Pikachu (voiced by Ryan Reynolds), his father's detecting partner, after the father appears to have been killed in an accident.2019 May 9, Ben Kenigsberg, “'Pokémon Detective Pikachu' Review: A Cat and (Electric) Mouse Game”, in The New York Times, archived from…. From the entry detect
• He had an aversion to staples and paper clips and therefore preferred documents to be joined by a treasury tag, or, as he put it, ‘klopped’.2014, Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Hodder & Stoughton. From the entry treasury tag
• Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry blennophobia
• His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism.1961 October 4, Paul Hofmann, “Communists in West Expected to Back Khrushchev Against Soviet and Chinese Left-Wing Extremists”, in The New…. From the entry maximalist
• About a year ago, Rockwell Sayre, wealthy Chicago realtor, left most of his fortune for the extermination of these animals, for which he had maintained a lifelong aversion.1936 November 9, “Strange Cure for Agoraphobia, Worst of Fears: Science Studies the Amazing Liberation From a Psychic Prison of Mr. Kern”…. From the entry felinophobia
• There were the middle-aged men, the old men, who did not bow down to her; but from middle-age, as from eld, she had a sanguine aversion.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry whithersoever

Meaning of aversion

1. noun Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
2. noun An object of dislike or repugnance.
3. noun The act of turning away from an object.

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Questions about aversion in a sentence

How do you use aversion in a sentence?

Aversion is used as a noun. For example: “Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.”

What is a short sentence with aversion?

“Another common aversion is that of high places.”

What does aversion mean?

Aversion means opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.